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The solar photosphere provides us with a laboratory for understanding turbulence in a layer where the fundamental processes of transport vary rapidly and a strongly superadiabatic region lies very closely to a subadiabatic layer. Our tools…

Using high cadence observations from the Hydrogen-alpha Rapid Dynamics camera imaging system on the Dunn Solar Telescope, we present an investigation of the statistical properties of transverse oscillations in spicules captured above the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-18 W. Bate , D. B. Jess , V. M. Nakariakov , S. D. T. Grant , S. Jafarzadeh , M. Stangalini , P. H. Keys , D. J. Christian , F. P. Keenan

The Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission provides high-resolution observations of the chromosphere and transition region. We try to determine whether the light walls exist somewhere else in active regions besides light…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-20 Y. J. Hou , T. Li , S. H. Yang , J. Zhang

Light bridges (LBs) are among the most striking sub-structures in sunspots, where various activities have been revealed by recent high-resolution observations from the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS). According to the variety…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-20 Yijun Hou , Ting Li , Shuhong Yang , Shin Toriumi , Yilin Guo , Jun Zhang

On September 21, 2012, we carried out spectral observations of a solar facula in the Si I 10827 {\AA}, He I 10830 {\AA}, and H{\alpha} spectral lines. Later, in the process of analyzing the data, we found a small-scale flare in the middle…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-05 Andrei Chelpanov , Nikolai Kobanov

We study the properties of waves in a facular region of moderate strength in the photosphere and chromosphere. Our aim is to analyse statistically the wave periods, power and phase relations as a function of the magnetic field strength and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Roman Kostik , Elena Khomenko

Light bridges, the bright structure dividing umbrae in sunspot regions, show various activity events. In Paper I, we reported on analysis of multi-wavelength observations of a light bridge in a developing active region (AR) and concluded…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-07 Shin Toriumi , Mark C. M. Cheung , Yukio Katsukawa

Aims. With the Solar Optical Telescope on Hinode, we investigate the basic properties of high-degree solar oscillations observed at two levels in the solar atmosphere, in the G-band (formed in the photosphere) and in the Ca II H line…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 U. Mitra-Kraev , A. G. Kosovichev , T. Sekii

We present observations of persistent oscillations of some bright features in the upper-chromosphere/transition-region above sunspots taken by IRIS SJ 1400 {\AA} and upward propagating quasi-periodic disturbances along coronal loops rooted…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-21 Zhenyong Hou , Zhenghua Huang , Lidong Xia , Bo Li , Hui Fu

Three-minute oscillations over sunspot's umbra in AR 11131 were observed simultaneously in UV/EUV emission by SDO/AIA and in radio emission by Nobeyama Radioheliograph (NoRH). We use 24-hours series of SDO and 8-hours series of NoRH…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 V. E. Reznikova , K. Shibasaki , R. A. Sych , V. M. Nakariakov

Sunspots host a large variety of oscillatory phenomena, whose properties depend on the nature of the wave modes and the magnetic and thermodynamic structure of the spot. Umbral chromospheric oscillations exhibit significant differences…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-22 T. Felipe

We report the discovery of supersonic downflows in a sunspot light bridge using measurements taken with the spectropolarimeter on board the Hinode satellite. The downflows occur in small patches close to regions where the vector magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Rohan Eugene Louis , Luis R. Bellot Rubio , Shibu K. Mathew , P. Venkatakrishnan

A large solar pore with a granular light bridge was observed on October 15, 2008 with the IBIS spectrometer at the Dunn Solar Telescope and a 69-min long time series of spectral scans in the lines Ca II 854.2 nm and Fe I 617.3 nm was…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 M. Sobotka , M. Svanda , J. Jurcak , P. Heinzel , D. Del Moro

Transverse oscillations that do not show significant damping in solar coronal loops are found to be ubiquitous. Recently, the discovery of high-frequency transverse oscillations in small-scale loops has been accelerated by the Extreme…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-08 Daye Lim , Tom Van Doorsselaere , David Berghmans , Richard J. Morton , Vaibhav Pant , Sudip Mandal

Using very-high mobility GaAs/AlGaAs 2D electron Hall bar samples, we have experimentally studied the photoresistance/photovoltaic oscillations induced by microwave irradiation in the regime where both 1/B and B-periodic oscillations can be…

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We present multi-epoch, $R-$band imaging obtained from the Palomar Transient Factory of a small, fan-shaped reflection nebula in NGC 1333 that experiences prominent brightness fluctuations. Photometry of HBC 340 (K7e) and HBC 341 (M5e), a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-11 S. E. Dahm , L. A. Hillenbrand

Sunspot light bridges (LBs) exhibit a wide range of short-lived phenomena in the chromosphere and transition region. In contrast, we use here data from the Multi-Application Solar Telescope (MAST), the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-18 Rohan E. Louis , Shibu K. Mathew , A. Raja Bayanna , Christian Beck , Debi P. Choudhary

We study chromospheric oscillations including umbral flashes and running penumbral waves in a sunspot of active region (AR) using scanning spectroscopy in H-alpha and Ca II 8542A, with the Fast Imaging Solar Spectrograph (FISS) at the 1.6…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-07 Ram Ajor Maurya , Jongchul Chae , Hyungmin Park , Heesu Yang , Donguk Song , Kyuhyoun Cho

We report detection of oscillations in brightness temperature, size, and horizontal velocity of three small bright features in the chromosphere of a plage/enhanced-network region. The observations, which were taken with high temporal…

It is well-known that the global acoustic oscillations of the Sun's atmosphere can excite resonance modes within large-scale magnetic concentrations. These structures are conduits of energy between the different layers of the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-14 M. Berretti , M. Stangalini , G. Verth , V. Fedun , S. Jafarzadeh , D. B. Jess , F. Berrilli